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'{{New unreviewed article|date=March 2017}} '''Henrietta Tower''' (''Henriette'', ''Enrichetta'') (26 October 1856 – 3 April 1933) was born in [[Pottsville, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://republicanherald.com/news/pottsville-heiress-henrietta-tower-wurts-was-philanthropist-friend-of-mussolini-1.1913423|title=Pottsville heiress Henrietta Tower Wurts was philanthropist, friend of Mussolini|last=Republican-Herald)|first=By Catherine Marquardt (Special to The|access-date=2017-03-15|language=en-US}}</ref> While living in Rome, she and her husband, George Washington Wurts, created an art collection containing more than 4,000 works that was donated on her death in 1933 to Benito Mussolini. The art collection remains in Rome, and their villa and gardens are open to the public. Henrietta Tower was the last of seven children of Charlemagne Tower, a lawyer, businessman, and graduate of Harvard University. After her father’s death in 1928, Tower’s inheritance include a vast fortune from her father’s business ventures which included owning a coal mining operation in Pennsylvania and an iron production plant in Minnesota. This inheritance made her one of the wealthiest women in the United States at that time.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=fachechi|first=grazia maria|title=George Washington Wurts, Henriette Tower, una collezione «di curiosità e opere d’arte» e una villa «magnificent, the handsomest ever bestowed on Rome»|url=http://www.academia.edu/12541135/George_Washington_Wurts_Henriette_Tower_una_collezione_di_curiosit%C3%A0_e_opere_d_arte_e_una_villa_magnificent_the_handsomest_ever_bestowed_on_Rome_|journal=Riflessi del collezionismo tra bilanci critici e nuovi contributi. Reflections on/of Art Collecting, between Critical assessments and New Contribution|language=en}}</ref> Tower married George Washington Wurts in 1898. In 1902 the couple moved to Rome and bought a villa, known as the [[Villa Sciarra (Rome)|Villa Sciarra-Wurts]], which they spent the rest of their lives renovating and decorating with a variety of art works. They frequently entertained the wealthy, ambassadors, and aristocratic members of society. After her husband’s death in 1928 Tower gave their villa to the city of [[Rome]] on the condition that the vast garden be turned into a public park and cultural center in honor of the German poet, [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]. (Included with this was a gift of $50,000 to maintain the property.)<ref name=":1" /> The park so dedicated was opened in 1932 and a year later, in 1933, Tower died in Lucerne, Switzerland and is buried in the [[Protestant Cemetery, Rome|Protestant cemetery in Rome]].<ref name=":0" /> She bequeathed the vast art collection that she and her husband had expanded over several decades, containing roughly 4,000 works, to [[Benito Mussolini]] on the condition that it be kept in a museum. The collection was given to Rome's National Museum di Palazzo Venezia where it has remained since. Tower’s will also established ''The Henrietta Tower Wurts Foundation'' in Philadelphia which in addition to funding [[Meals on Wheels]] also provides small grants to “organizations serving disadvantaged children and youth and/or the elderly”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.philafound.org/Nonprofits/ApplyforaGrant/TypesofGrantsAvailable/HenriettaTowerWurts.aspx|title=Henrietta Tower Wurts grants at The Philadelphia Foundation|last=Foundation|first=The Philadelphia|website=www.philafound.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-15}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * Official site of the [http://museopalazzovenezia.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/1/home Museo Nazionale Piazza Venezia] * Official site of the [https://www.philafound.org/Nonprofits/ApplyforaGrant/TypesofGrantsAvailable/HenriettaTowerWurts.aspx Henrietta Tower Wurts Foundation] * * * <nowiki>[[Category:American art collectors]]</nowiki> <nowiki>[[Category:Expatriates in Italy]]</nowiki>'